t was then captured
by the Hungarian rebels, who made it their headquarters during the
latter part of the insurrection. It was from it that Kossuth issued his
famous proclamation (11th August 1849), and it was here that he handed
over the supreme military and civil power to Gorgei. The fortress was
recaptured shortly after the surrender of Gorgei to the Russians at
Vilagos. The fortress is now used as an ammunition depot.

The town of Uj-Arad, i.e. New Arad (pop. 6124), situated on the opposite
bank of the Maros, is practically a suburb of Arad, with which it is
connected by a bridge. The town was founded during the Turkish wars of
the 17th century. The works erected by the Turks for the capture of the
fortress of Arad formed the nucleus of the new town.

Vilagos, the town where the famous capitulation of Gorgei to the
Russians took place on the 13th of August 1849, lies 21 m. by rail
north-east of Arad.

ARAEOSTYLE (Gr. [Greek: araios], weak or widely spaced, and [Greek:
stylos], column), an architectural term for the intercolumniation (q.v.)
given to those temples where the columns had only timber architraves to
carry.

ARAEOSYSTYLE (Gr. [Greek: araios], widely spaced, and [Greek: systylos],
with columns set close together), an architectural term applied to a
colonnade, in which the intercolumniation (q.v.) is alternately wide and
narrow, as in the case of the western porch of St Paul's cathedral and
the east front of the Louvre by Perrault.

ARAGO, DOMINIQUE FRANCOIS JEAN (1786-1853), French physicist, was born
on the 26th of February 1786, at Estagel, a small village near
Perpignan, in the department of the eastern Pyrenees. He was the eldest
of four brothers. Jean (1788-1836) emigrated to America and became a
general in the Mexican army. Jacques Etienne Victor (1799-1855) took
part in L.C. de S. de Freycinet's exploring voyage in the "Uranie" from
1817 to 1821, and on his return to France devoted himself to journalism
and the drama. The fourth brother, Etienne Vincent (1802-1892), is said
to have collaborated with H. de Balzac in the _Heritiere de Birague_,
and from 1822 to 1847 wrote a great number of light dramatic pieces,
mostly in collaboration. A strong republican, he was obliged to leave
France in 1849, but returned after the amnesty of 1859. In 1879 he was
nominated director of the Luxembourg museum.

Showing decided military tastes Francois Arago was sent to the municipal
college of